Gerald “Gerry” Patten, 74, of Redwood Falls passed away Thursday, July 21, 2022, at St. Cloud Hospital. A Memorial Service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, August 1, 2022, at First Presbyterian Church in Redwood Falls. Visitation will…
Carter E. Swierenga, 18, of Prinsburg passed away unexpectedly Saturday, July 16 at Carris Health Rice Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 26 at the Unity Christian Reformed Church in Prinsburg. Interment will be…
While the Schult Redwood Falls plant was shut down during the week of June 27, the team came together to volunteer and donate materials for a Habitat for Humanity home in Marshall. When the house was donated to Habitat for Humanity, Schult volunteered to go in and do some removal and install their $3,512.75 worth of donated materials.
Despite the hot, humid conditions, locals turned out in good numbers each night of the Redwood County Fair which wrapped up Sunday in Redwood Falls. Kids were able to enjoy the rides which illuminated the night sky. Ben Stoterau
I had a fun encounter with a red fox just south of Dacotah Ridge Golf Club recently. Minnesota has two kinds of foxes, red and the less familiar gray. Red Foxes can run up to 31 mph, jump over six feet and can swim. A foxes forepaws have five toes while their hind feet only have four. A male fox is called a dog fox, a female is called a vixen and a young fox is called a cub, pup or kit. Red Foxes have extremely good hearing and are a monogamous animal that mates for life. Ben Stoterau
Question: If involved in a minor auto accident with another driver what steps should be taken at the scene by both parties? Answer: Crashes happen every day in Minnesota. Crashes are one of the State Patrol’s primary duties.
With back-to-back victories over Menomonie the local Redwood Falls 12-Under girls softball team captured the Minnesota Tier-8 State Tournament held July 9-10th in the Twin Cities. The girls opened the event with a come from behind 15-12 victory over Hutchinson Black (after trailing 12-4).
Roger Carroll Breckenridge was born May 28, 1940, on the Martin Frieze farm in Three Lakes Township, Redwood County. He was the son of Sidney and Florence (Muetzel) Breckenridge. Shortly after his birth, his parents moved the family to 124 West Flynn Street in Redwood Falls where he spent his childhood, boyhood and teenage years. He attended Lincoln grade school and RFHS, graduating with the Class of 1958. He was a Boy Scout and wrestled for the RFHS under coach Virgil Sales. He attended Methodist Episcopal Church where he was confirmed. While still in high school he worked at The Redwood Gazette. He spent three years in the U. S. Army and was stationed in Hawaii and Japan. While in Japan he and Yoko were married in 1962 at the American Embassy in Tokyo. Roger graduated from Mankato State with a BS in Mathematics and a minor in Physics. He taught mathematics at Round Lake and Winthrop and then in 1978 the family moved to the Twin Cities where he worked as a computer programmer for UNISYS. For a retirement job, he was a shuttle driver at Belzer’s car dealership in Lakeville. For hobbies Roger worked on family genealogy, history of Redwood Falls, local Civil War Soldiers, the History of the Dakota Conflict and published weekly a RFHS Alumni newsletter entitled The Red Dog Gulch Gazette. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother, John. Survivors include his wife, Yoko, son, Richard (Amanda) Breckenridge and granddaughter, Emma of Plano, Texas, his brother Gordon (Kaye) of Alpena, Mich., sister-in-law Barbara of Marshall, and several nieces and nephews.
To the editor: The taxpayers of Redwood Area School District have a decision to make on Aug. 9.
To the editor: I commend the WRAP organization for offering support services for all victims of domestic violence or sex trafficking. They are needed in this age when the cultural environment is suffering from a massive breakdown of the family.